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| Birth: 1640 in Corkaugh, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland<br>
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| Death: 1727 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States<br>
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| Father: [[Andrew Lynn (1605)]] (1605-1643)<br>
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| Mother: Ann Blair (1610-)<br>
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| Brother: William David Lynn (1650-1700)<br>
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| Wife: Margaret Patton (1676-1727)<br>
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| Sarah Linn (1670-1757)<br>
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| William David Lynn (1672-1727)<br>
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| Margaret Lynn (1690-1718)<br>
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| MARGARET LYNN (1693-1773)<br>
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| [[John Lynn (1695)]] (1695-1752)<br>
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| Charles Lynn (1700-1795)<br>
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| ==Lynn History==
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| <pre>
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| From: Barb Shave <bjshave@shaw.ca>
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| Subject: Laird Lynns
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| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:43:42 -0800
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| References: <200601101800.k0AI0I86029046@lists5.rootsweb.com>
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| Gads , the recent letters re: the Lairds of Loch Lynn are following flights
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| of fancy and I have been as guilty of this as anyone. I too am of this line
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| and would dearly love to think I was descended from Lairds (Lords) of
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| Scotland but there is no substance whatsoever to these claims.
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| Our branch of the family came from the Lowland County of Ayreshire Scotland
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| and sadly, there is no Loch Lynn/or Linnhe by any spelling on the map of
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| this county. Perhaps there was once such a loch (lake), but there were no
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| Lynn Lairds because the Ayreshire land upon which we Lynns toiled was owned
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| by the Boyds. We Lynns were Boyd serfs and we wore the Boyd tartan to
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| demonstrate our loyalty. Accordingly we dutifully we followed the Boyds
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| (our clan) as British loyalists and therefore don't even have the
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| distinction of being religious nationalists like those gritty highlanders.
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| While there is indeed a Loch Lynn/Linnhe in the highlands in the County of
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| Inverness, there is no history of any "Lynn Lairds" of this place because
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| the lake wasn't even given its present name until the 18th Century.
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| Don't expect to find tributes to the Lynns in Scottish histories. We left
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| Scotland for Plantation Ulster in the 17th century and from thence to the
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| new world in the early 18th so we were long gone before the devastating
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| defeat of the highlanders at the Battle of Culladen Moor in 1746. Besides
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| we Lynns were lowlanders, not highlanders and we would have been on the side
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| of the British. The winning British were the hated oppressors of the famous
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| northen clans.
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| So there is not much in our Scottish Lynn history about which to romanticize
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| and I am truly sorry to be the one to prick illusion balloons. But you and
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| I are not the first Lynns get carried away. The notions of nobility seem to
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| have originated with the reference to "my father, the Laird of Loch Lynn,"
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| in the diary of Margaret Lynn Lewis (w/o John Lewis, founder of Augusta Co
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| VA) Sadly, the experts on such things believe this diary to be a total
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| fraud. Lynn historians have nevertheless perpetuated and embellished the
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| fancy over the years. Too bad, all this.
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| My most recent source of bad news is THE FAMILY OF JOHN LEWIS, PIONEER;
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| Irvin Frazier, Mark W. Cowell Jr. and Lewis F. Fisher; Fisher Publications
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| Inc.; San Antonio, Texas, 1985.
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| I dearly hope that some one will come up with definitive proof of lofty
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| beginnings for us Lynns. Until then, however, we must each qualify our
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| claims lest others regard our web-postings as holy writ and pass on false
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| embellishments to succeeding generations.
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| Barb in BC
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| From: Lynneage@aol.com
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| Subject: Re: [LYNN-ROOTS] Laird Lynns
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| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:50:46 EST
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| Barb, I appreciate your caution. Words spoken or written in haste are often
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| also in error. However, there actually were Lairds of Lynn who owned the
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| barony of Lynn surrounding the village of Dalry, Ayrshire and, for a period of
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| at least 216 years, a piece of property just south of Castle Dundonald called
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| Highlees. I've spent countless hours researching (among other records) some
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| 70 volumes of Scottish Record Society Publications for Lynns and Linns.
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| Among them is a volume of the Hunter Family Papers, some of which reveal that
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| the Lords of Lynn in Ayrshire chartered Highlees to the Hunters of Hunterstoun
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| "for counsel rendered and to be rendered."
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| Yes, the Lynns of Ayrshire were associated with Clan Boyd, but they came
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| into property of their own, reputedly acquired from the De Morvilles. The
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| earliest chief of this family was "Andrew Lyn, lord (laird) of that Ilk," who
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| executed the original charter to the Hunters "the last day of February (fourteen
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| hundred) and fifty-two." The charter is torn where the words "fourteen
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| hundred" would appear, but the charter was followed by an undamaged sasine dated
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| March 5, 1453. In all, there are nearly 20 documents dated between 1452 and
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| 1668 relating to the Lynns of that Ilk and their ownership of Highlees.
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| Also, one Robert Boyd fought for Robert the Bruce and was subsequently
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| knighted by him. It is a mistake to place all lowlanders on the side of the
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| British. While Robert Boyd did sign the 1296 Ragman Roll swearing loyalty to
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| "Longshanks," England's Edward I, so did William Wallace's uncle Sir Reginald
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| Crawford and Robert the Bruce himself. Political "necessities" have always been
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| the bane of society, and loyalties sworn under duress were and are often
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| later rescinded.
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| I am preparing to publish a book on the Lynns and Linns of Scotland which
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| will highlight the Lords of Lynn of Ayrshire, as well as other families and
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| individuals in Scotland named Lynn and Linn. It will also include an
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| interesting, old Ayrshire folktale about one of the Lords of Lynn, which tale was first
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| put in print in 1889. I hope to have my book available by spring or early
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| summer.
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| Loretta Lynn Layman
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| </pre>
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